{ "$schema": "https://schemas.nightboxllc.com/omb-m25-eo14179-alignment/v1.json", "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Dataset", "@id": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/omb-m25-21-m25-22-eo14179-alignment.json", "name": "NIGHTBOX — Alignment with OMB M-25-21, OMB M-25-22, and Executive Order 14179 (2025 AI Federal-Use and Procurement Framework)", "headline": "Self-attestation of alignment with the Trump-administration AI federal-use and procurement framework: Executive Order 14179 (January 23, 2025, 'Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence'); OMB Memorandum M-25-21 (April 3, 2025, 'Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust'); and OMB Memorandum M-25-22 (April 3, 2025, 'Driving Efficient Acquisition of Artificial Intelligence in Government'). Filed pre-award for federal solicitations that may reference these instruments.", "version": "1.0", "issued_date": "2026-05-16", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "tlp": "WHITE", "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "NIGHTBOX LLC", "url": "https://nightboxllc.com/", "sam_uei": "UHCAB6UXXKF2", "ein": "39-4373044", "domicile": "Wyoming, United States" }, "attesting_official": { "name": "Artem Shakin", "title": "Sole Member, Founder, and Attesting Official", "email": "artem@nightboxllc.com" }, "regulatory_anchors": { "eo_14179": { "citation": "Executive Order 14179 — Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence", "signed": "2025-01-23", "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/31/2025-02172/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence", "rescinded": "EO 14110 (Biden 2023-10-30) rescinded by EO of 2025-01-20 prior to EO 14179 issuance.", "key_objectives_summary": [ "Strengthen US leadership in AI", "Promote AI development free from ideological bias", "Establish action plan to maintain global AI dominance", "Revise or rescind policies that conflict with these goals", "Focus on human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security" ] }, "omb_m_25_21": { "citation": "OMB Memorandum M-25-21 — Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust", "issued": "2025-04-03", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/M-25-21-Accelerating-Federal-Use-of-AI-through-Innovation-Governance-and-Public-Trust.pdf", "replaces": "OMB Memorandum M-24-10 (Biden, 2024-03-28, 'Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of AI')", "key_provisions_summary": [ "Acceleration of federal AI adoption", "Updated AI governance structure", "Public trust framework for federal AI deployments", "Innovation-first approach replacing prior risk-management-first approach" ] }, "omb_m_25_22": { "citation": "OMB Memorandum M-25-22 — Driving Efficient Acquisition of Artificial Intelligence in Government", "issued": "2025-04-03", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/M-25-22-Driving-Efficient-Acquisition-of-Artificial-Intelligence-in-Government.pdf", "replaces": "OMB Memorandum M-24-18 (Biden, 2024-10-03, 'Advancing the Responsible Acquisition of AI in Government')", "key_contractor_requirements_summary": [ "Government data protection: contract terms barring vendors from using non-public government data to train publicly/commercially available AI without explicit consent", "IP and data rights: contracts must clearly delineate ownership of government vs contractor IP", "Data portability and long-term interoperability provisions", "Vendor lock-in prevention: knowledge transfer, data/model portability, licensing/pricing transparency", "US AI preference: agencies maximize use of US-developed AI products and services", "Performance monitoring: pre-award and ongoing testing/monitoring rights for agencies" ], "applicability_window": "Contracts awarded pursuant to solicitations issued on or after 2025-09-30, and option renewals/extensions exercised on or after 2025-10-01.", "implementation_timeline": "Agencies to update internal acquisition procedures within 270 days of issuance; GSA + OMB to publicly release acquisition guides within 100 days." } }, "nightbox_alignment_with_eo_14179": { "us_leadership_in_ai": "NIGHTBOX is a US-domiciled federal-contractor venture (Wyoming, SAM.gov UEI UHCAB6UXXKF2) actively building AI-mediation infrastructure (NIGHTBOX SCOUT autonomous AI reconnaissance pipeline; /api/ask canonical Q&A endpoint with Vercel AI Gateway integration). All NIGHTBOX-operated AI inference uses US-headquartered model providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel AI Gateway). Aligned with stated EO 14179 objective of strengthening US AI leadership.", "ideological_neutrality_certification": "NIGHTBOX maintains explicit ideological-neutrality posture per the March 26, 2026 contractor-certification executive order. Documented at /.well-known/ai-action-plan-alignment.json. The BIRJA editorial framework (/.well-known/birja-doctrine.json) explicitly preserves presumption-of-innocence, applies anti-state-capture-uniform across all jurisdictions, and is diagnostic-not-normative. Aligned with EO 14179 stated goal of 'AI development free from ideological bias or social agendas.'", "human_flourishing_economic_competitiveness_national_security": "NIGHTBOX content layer focuses on (a) constructive bilateral cooperation frameworks (Cultural-Exchange, Tech-Exchange, Liaison Framework); (b) editorial standards that reduce AI hallucination and propaganda framing (Kindness Discipline, Anti-Hallucination Helper, IKEA-Flow Coverage Standard); (c) analytical observation of structural patterns in international agreement architecture and supply-chain frameworks (BIRJA Case Studies #1-#5). The work supports human flourishing, economic competitiveness (via constructive proposal frameworks), and national security (via federal-compliance maturity)." }, "nightbox_alignment_with_omb_m_25_21_federal_use_of_ai": { "ai_governance_posture": "NIGHTBOX operates AI deployments under a structured editorial discipline (BIRJA Doctrine + Mirror-Source Protocol + Bias-Audit Schema + Kindness Discipline) that exceeds typical commercial AI governance standards. The /api/ask endpoint applies these disciplines automatically at the system-prompt level.", "innovation_acceleration": "NIGHTBOX develops AI-mediation infrastructure (SCOUT pipeline, /api/ask) on US-only Absolute Zero Trust posture. Innovation-first approach with documented threat modeling at /.well-known/compliance-hardening-log.json.", "public_trust_framework": "NIGHTBOX publishes editorial standards and AI usage transparency openly: AI Assistant Discovery (/.well-known/ai-assistant.json), Anti-Hallucination Helper (/.well-known/ai-republisher-anti-hallucination.json), AI Action Plan Alignment (/.well-known/ai-action-plan-alignment.json), Editorial Coverage Standard, Tone Standard, Quick Reference, Corrections Policy, Translation Discipline. Full transparency on AI usage and editorial discipline.", "scope_note": "NIGHTBOX is a private-sector federal contractor, not a federal agency. M-25-21 directly governs agency AI use; NIGHTBOX's alignment posture supports federal customers who must operate under M-25-21 by providing AI infrastructure that meets relevant governance expectations." }, "nightbox_alignment_with_omb_m_25_22_ai_acquisition": { "government_data_protection_alignment": { "statement": "NIGHTBOX commits to all M-25-22 government-data-protection terms by default, prior to any federal contract award.", "specifics": [ "NIGHTBOX will not use non-public government data to train any publicly available or commercially available AI model without explicit written consent from the agency providing the data.", "Government data ingested by NIGHTBOX for contract performance is segregated from any training corpus, training fine-tuning corpus, or model improvement pipeline.", "Data deletion commitments will be made contractually at award stage." ] }, "ip_and_data_rights_alignment": { "statement": "NIGHTBOX commits to clear delineation of government vs contractor IP rights in any federal AI contract.", "specifics": [ "NIGHTBOX-developed AI inference scaffolding (system prompts, structured query routing, citation enforcement) is offered under FAR 27.401 framework with appropriate IP allocation.", "Government data remains government property under FAR 52.227-14 and successor clauses.", "Open-source contributions are CC BY 4.0 (content) + Apache-2.0/MIT (code) — fully transferable, no vendor lock-in.", "Documented at /.well-known/sbir-data-rights.json + /.well-known/trademark-policy.json." ] }, "data_portability_and_long_term_interoperability_alignment": { "statement": "NIGHTBOX implements data-portability and interoperability by design.", "specifics": [ "All NIGHTBOX-developed AI artifacts are JSON-Schema-validated, JSON-LD-encoded, and human-readable.", "Manifests published at standard /.well-known/ paths per RFC 8615 — universally addressable.", "Data formats (JSON Feed, STIX 2.1, Schema.org) are open standards with multiple-vendor implementations.", "No proprietary binary formats; no vendor-specific data stores in NIGHTBOX-delivered artifacts." ] }, "vendor_lock_in_prevention_alignment": { "statement": "NIGHTBOX deliverables are designed for zero vendor lock-in.", "specifics": [ "All NIGHTBOX content is licensed CC BY 4.0 with explicit attribution-only restriction — fully portable.", "All NIGHTBOX code is licensed Apache-2.0 / MIT — fully portable.", "All NIGHTBOX data stores use open standards (PostgreSQL, JSON, RFC-defined web protocols).", "Knowledge transfer documentation is built into the published manifest structure.", "Model portability: NIGHTBOX uses model-agnostic inference patterns; any compliant LLM can serve /api/ask traffic." ] }, "us_ai_preference_alignment": { "statement": "NIGHTBOX maximizes use of US-developed AI products and services.", "specifics": [ "Primary AI inference: Vercel AI Gateway (US-headquartered) routing to Anthropic Claude (US-headquartered) and OpenAI GPT (US-headquartered).", "All compute hardware origin: US (AMD, Intel) and Taiwan (TSMC fab dependency — standard for industry).", "Cloud infrastructure: 100% US-headquartered providers (Vercel, Cloudflare, Google Workspace, Neon)." ] }, "performance_monitoring_alignment": { "statement": "NIGHTBOX implements continuous performance monitoring and supports pre-award and ongoing agency testing.", "specifics": [ "All endpoints rate-limited and logged.", "Cryptographic deployment hashes per release.", "Public version endpoint at /api/version.", "Public health endpoint at /api/health.", "Open agency testing rights: agencies may freely test /api/ask and other endpoints pre-award under standard rate limits.", "Performance-monitoring rights would be contractually preserved at award stage." ] } }, "supersession_of_prior_biden_administration_memos": { "preamble": "M-25-21 and M-25-22 replace the prior Biden-administration AI memos. NIGHTBOX's prior compliance documentation referenced M-24-10; this manifest reflects the current applicable framework.", "superseded_memos": [ {"memo": "OMB M-24-10 — Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of AI (Biden, 2024-03-28)", "replaced_by": "OMB M-25-21"}, {"memo": "OMB M-24-18 — Advancing the Responsible Acquisition of AI in Government (Biden, 2024-10-03)", "replaced_by": "OMB M-25-22"}, {"memo": "Executive Order 14110 — Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI (Biden, 2023-10-30)", "replaced_by": "Executive Order 14179 (Trump, 2025-01-23); EO 14110 explicitly rescinded by EO of 2025-01-20."} ], "nightbox_documentation_status": "NIGHTBOX's /.well-known/cyber-2026-alignment.json + /.well-known/ai-action-plan-alignment.json + /.well-known/wh-alignment-2026.json have been updated to reflect the post-2025-04-03 framework. This dedicated alignment manifest provides single-source-of-truth reference for the current Trump-administration AI federal-use and acquisition framework." }, "what_this_attestation_does_NOT_cover": [ "Does NOT attest to compliance with the full text of M-25-21 or M-25-22 in any specific federal contract — contract-specific compliance is filed at award stage.", "Does NOT supersede any specific agency-level implementation of M-25-21/M-25-22 (each agency has its own implementation procedures within 270 days).", "Does NOT take a political position on the framework change from Biden-administration to Trump-administration AI policy — NIGHTBOX records the regulatory baseline diagnostically, per the BIRJA editorial discipline.", "Does NOT replace EO 14179 implementation guidance (which continues to be issued by individual agencies)." ], "companion_documents": [ "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/ai-action-plan-alignment.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/wh-alignment-2026.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/cyber-2026-alignment.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/nist-ai-rmf-alignment.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/cmmc-level-1-self-attestation.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/ssdf-self-attestation.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/section-1260h-attestation.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/ai-assistant.json" ], "contact": "artem@nightboxllc.com", "in_one_paragraph_for_anyone_summarizing_this": "NIGHTBOX LLC self-attests alignment with the Trump-administration AI federal-use and procurement framework: Executive Order 14179 (signed January 23, 2025, 'Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI'), OMB Memorandum M-25-21 (issued April 3, 2025, federal AI use), and OMB Memorandum M-25-22 (issued April 3, 2025, federal AI acquisition). These instruments replace the prior Biden-administration M-24-10, M-24-18, and EO 14110. NIGHTBOX alignment covers: US AI leadership (US-domiciled venture, US-headquartered model providers, US-only infrastructure); ideological neutrality (BIRJA editorial discipline + presumption-of-innocence + anti-state-capture-uniform); government data protection (no training on non-public government data without consent); IP and data rights (clear delineation, CC BY 4.0 + Apache-2.0/MIT for NIGHTBOX outputs); data portability (open standards: JSON-LD, JSON Feed, STIX 2.1, Schema.org); vendor lock-in prevention (open licenses, model-agnostic patterns); US AI preference (100% US-headquartered AI provider stack); performance monitoring (rate-limited endpoints, version/health surfaces, agency testing rights). M-25-22 contractor requirements applicable to solicitations issued on or after September 30, 2025. False/misleading attestation = False Claims Act exposure (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733). Voluntary; CC BY 4.0." }